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The Hobson Looked After Children and Young People Funds

Intro:
The Hobson Fund for looked after Children and Young People has been established in partnership with The Community Foundation and Department for Communities (DfC) .

The DfC Match Philanthropy Programme has levered £500,000 of funding to be distributed to Voluntary and Community organisations and Social Enterprises. Five new funds, each with a value of £100,000 will be set up through philanthropic donations and DfC.

The Hobson Looked After Children and Young People Fund has been established to support looked after children and young people, and those transitioning from care.

Priorities:
The fund aims to support looked after children and young people, and those transitioning from care, to support them to feel emotionally stable and financially secure, and ultimately make sure that they are able to thrive in life. We want to make a small number of awards to those organisations working in the community and voluntary sector, who are delivering innovative and new projects offering additional value for looked after children at this time, in areas where statutory support is falling short of need, is limited, or in some places at the moment non-existent.